{"product_id":"reflections-by-paul-roberts-9781574672022","title":"Reflections","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAmadeus\u003c\/em\u003e. The piano music of Maurice Ravel is among the most thrilling, the most colourful, and, for pianists, the most challenging of the repertoire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book is about how performers and listeners can discover it and relate to it—how it sounds and feels under the fingers and within the receptive imagination. But to write about those experiences, to explore the background, influences, and impulses behind Ravel's music, is to be engaged in a form of biography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDiscovering the delicate melancholy of the Pavane and the Sonatine, the astounding virtuosity of \u003cem\u003eGaspard de la nuit\u003c\/em\u003e, and the exotic tone painting of \u003cem\u003eMiroirs\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eReflections\u003c\/em\u003e) leads to the question, \"Who was the extraordinary person who created this?\" Here are indispensable insights into the literary origins of \u003cem\u003eGaspard de la nuit\u003c\/em\u003e, the derivation of the water imagery in \u003cem\u003eJeux d'eau\u003c\/em\u003e, and the sensuous delights of \u003cem\u003eMiroirs\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe chapter on \u003cem\u003eValses nobles et sentimentales\u003c\/em\u003e illuminates Ravel's meticulously controlled sense of irony. \u003cem\u003eLe tombeau de Couperin\u003c\/em\u003e is related to the impact of the First World War on his psyche and to the refuge he sought in the civilising values of the age of Watteau and Couperin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIntimate and perceptive, \u003cem\u003eReflections\u003c\/em\u003e is inescapably about the life of Maurice Ravel—reflections, by way of the piano music, on an exceptionally private but immensely attractive man.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46845584212204,"sku":"9781574672022","price":77.8,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/17769303482748.jpg?v=1758887810","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/reflections-by-paul-roberts-9781574672022","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}